ASM is pleased to note that materials to be produced from its globally significant Dubbo Project remain firmly on the Australian Government’s updated Critical Minerals List.
The revised list has been launched by Federal Minister for Resources the Hon Madeleine King MP.
The unique, long-life Dubbo Project deposit will produce the rare earth elements of neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium, in addition to zirconium, hafnium and niobium. These elements all play a critical role in the global clean energy transition.
According to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Australia’s Critical Minerals List contains minerals:
- essential to our modern technologies, economies and national security, specifically the priority technologies set out in the Critical Minerals Strategy
- for which Australia has geological potential for resources
- in demand from our strategic international partners
- that are vulnerable to supply chain disruption.
The full Critical Minerals List can be viewed, here.
Once operational, the Dubbo Project will mine, separate and refine its materials onsite to produce metal oxides and mixed chlorides. Products will then be shipped to ASM’s metallisation plants and/or direct to global customers.